Sweet & Savory

Bountiful Harvest Continues

The bountiful harvest of summer is so exciting! First we played with 7+ pounds of strawberries and now we have moved onto CHERRIES! The multitude of vendors selling sweet Bing and Rainier cherries convinced us without a doubt that the cherry season has arrived.

The lesson learned from the abundance of strawberries we bought earlier was that as much as you LOVE a fruit, you CANNOT finish several pounds of it before it goes bad. We practiced a bit of restraint this time by only buying 1.5 pounds of cherries, which ended up being just about the right amount. After we had satiated our cherry craving, we still had a bit leftover.

Our friends had invited us to a BBQ at their house, and it's impolite to show up empty-handed so we modified the fig and concord grape clafouti from Claudia Fleming's The Last Course (an absolutely FABULOUS book) to a cherry clafouti.

I'm afraid the picture is not as pretty as I would like. The cherry-dotted golden puffy clafouti had already sunken slightly by the time I got the camera ready. In spite of its mishapen appearance, the clafouti was delicious. The egginess and the texture reminded me of the dutch apple pancake I like to order at Original Pancake House. The halved cherries gave some sweetness and tartness to this "pancake". Though next time, I think I will serve it for breakfast instead of as a dessert at a BBQ. :P